Small piece of paper with a notation from, and signed by, Frederick Douglass. In 1861 abolitionist Frederick Douglass criticized the Lincoln administration for prohibiting black men from serving in the Union Army: “Men in earnest don’t fight with one hand, when they might fight with two, and a man drowning would not refuse to be saved even by a colored hand.” This autograph expresses Douglass’s sentiment with a plea to “unchain that black hand!” Title supplied by cataloger.
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